HOMEWORK FOR WEEK #1
☐ • Read: Chapter 1 - in Terry Barrett “About Art Criticism,”
Ch.1 – Barrett à “About Art and Criticism”
Art critics are enthusiastic about art - generally writing about work that one likes & informing the public about that art
Critics put art into a context: social, does some of the homework for the reader
They write speculatively waiting for the realization because are is purposefully challenging
What DOES THE CRITIC DO:
-Adds credibility to the artists and their art ($values$$)
- Adds social context
- Another way of viewing the work
They tells us why art matters
HISTORY: Giorgio Vasari = Father of Art Criticism (1550’s, Raphael and Michelangelo)…
Denis Diderot, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, Lawrence Alloway
Hilton Krammer. Arlene Raven, Lucy Lippard
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